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  1. "They were such nice young men" on Oz Pirate Party Tells the Elderly How To Bypass the Net Filter · · Score: 2, Funny

    "They had a nice demonstration on how to use the internet, the importance of changing your coffee filters and how to reach the exit it was hard to see with all the signs and the people running around but they taught us how to find it. There's a website that will show you how to get to the exit but only if you change your coffee filters or some such."

  2. Two and a half times more efficient on MIT Making Super Efficient Origami Solar Panels · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but 10x harder to clean.

  3. REVENGE IS OURS!!! on Yoctonewton Detector Smashes Force Sensing Record · · Score: 1

    Just wait til they try to vote on new standardized names.

    All laughing at us with the kibi and mebibytes stuff... it ain't over.

    BY FAAAAARRRRRR

    MUAHAHAAH!!!

  4. New excuse to play violent video games on Look At Sick People To Give Your Immune System a Boost · · Score: 3, Funny

    finally some research supporting "the other side" eh?

    "This ain't pointless violence, it's immune boosting!"

  5. "correlationisnotcausation" on Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs · · Score: 1, Funny

    says all the smokers in the audience.

    tee hee. :)

  6. Re:Cheaper solution on Tsunami Warning From Space? · · Score: 1

    Even cheaper than that, using existing cell phones and a "broadcast" message from the towers. No need to make new hardware for that.

    Heck you could just send a mass SMS to everyone along the coast.

  7. Re:Not a chance in hell on Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apple could market human waste, and we'd all hail it as revolutionary.

    That's the brown Zune you're thinking of. Let's you squirt at people.

  8. Re:Damn You, Science! on Science Attempts To Explain Heaven · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nonono... it's said that men and clams came from a common ancestor.

  9. Re:Always disturbs me to explain religion on Science Attempts To Explain Heaven · · Score: 1

    About Moses in Egypt. There does exist a secondary source that's quoting from a primary source if you check out Josephus'
    "Against Apion" where he argues with a Greek philosopher about the history of the Jews. In that he quotes numerous ancient reference works and histories from Roman, Greece, Sheba and others showing in many places that the early Israelite kings were real people in the record books and that Moses existed / the Israelites left Egypt. He also quotes several different Egyptian versions of the story and shows how they conflict with each other and don't make sense on their own.

    Of course as I said that's a secondary source so I'm not saying that's proof it happened, only that there are quotes from Egyptian sources in those days. As for the official records carved in stone, it's well known that the Egyptian rulers would chisel out the records of previous Pharaohs or events that they found distasteful. They also had a habit of only recording their victories and leaving out their defeats.

    But back on topic, the bible doesn't teach immortality of the soul anyways. Ezekiel 18:4 That was a later merging of local religions in an effort to attract more converts and happened a few hundred years after what we call the bible was completed.

  10. Calculus on Help Me Get My Math Back? · · Score: 1

    Really for me the main trick was understanding exactly what a derivative was. It sounds obvious I know but you really have to get your head wrapped around exactly what it's doing and the basic idea of summing an infinite series of slices. Do some mental exercises like the speed of a car and how a speedometer works, imagining the rate a pool of different shapes would be filling up as the water rises, etc...

    Once you get the concept clear and what it means the rest is just memorizing the various transforms with the Sin, Cos, etc... and getting in good practice doing it. Then years later when you've forgotten all of those (as I have) and you run into a calculus problem you'll at least recognize it and know what the basic formula is, then use a TI calculator or whatever.

  11. Re:WTF? on Students To Live Like Ancient Roman Gladiators · · Score: 1

    Ya know I was going to post something insightful about "the color band" which was how they would pair up the soldiers in an actual gay relationship with the purpose of them falling in love. The idea being that in battle they would fight much harder to protect their partner.

    I was going to... but Wikipedia doesn't seem to have the cite I need and I'm NOT gonna go googling gay soldiers and color bands!

  12. Re:Not "defective by design"! on Flash Builder 4 — Defective By Design? · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's right! People... you're going to brick "Defective by Design!" that's not what it means.

  13. A few months ago in a Postal office on Finland To Try Scanning Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    "Heeeey!!! I just figured out how we can get PAID to read Playboys all day!"

  14. Re:The Benefits of Moving Backward on Gnome 2.30 Released · · Score: 1

    http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/13/175252

    They should have listed to Steve. Spatial interfaces turn the users into janitors. There's just no ideal way to pre-arrange all your folders so that there's no overlap, sure you can do it for a few if you're always working on the same, but eventually you need to use one of the other half million folders on your system and the windows end up blocking. Yaaaay, now time to play the tile game on your screen.

    If your window manager doesn't allow spatial folders and you desperately want it for a particular batch of windows just make a virtual desktop screen to hold them and arrange them exactly how you like then switch to it when you need it. Best of both worlds.

  15. Walking and _____ing at the same time. on "Supertaskers" Can Safely Use Mobile Phones While Driving · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I saw this teenager once shooting hoops while talking on his cell phone. For about five minutes he just kept at it, didn't miss a shot, didn't pause talking while doing a jumpshot or anything. Someone else started using the same hoop, no sweat, didn't even have to wait just perfectly synchronized with the other kid.

    Damn.

    1 in 40. Not me.

  16. Another reason on Magnetism Can Sway Man's Moral Compass · · Score: 1

    Perhaps those who had a helmet on giving them a very strong magnetic zap in the brain started thinking...

    "Hey, this could be dangerous. But I feel okay, I guess it's fine"

    Which influenced their reasoning through the morality of possible danger scenarios.

  17. Re:Potential abuse of research? on Magnetism Can Sway Man's Moral Compass · · Score: 1

    Not only that, House is a man! I know it confused me too.

  18. Re:About relocating supercomputing power to Austra on Slimming Down a Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    I was joking to make your joke about electrons going backwards seem more real. But nobody modded me funny cuz they thought I was serious. No deadpan humor on the net. It's all about the voice.

  19. Re:Solely focused on consuming food... on Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had this buddy who was pretty big, sort of like the captain from Wall-E. I'd seen him eat in many social situations and noticed he ate about the same amount of food I did. Thought it was kind of odd that he'd be so large eating a normal amount of food every time I saw him but... weird.

    Then later another buddy told me the two of them went to a burger place for lunch, and each got a regular hamburger. Then afterwards after they'd said goodbye he noticed him sneak back and buy 2 more burgers.

    So all this time when he's around anyone he'd watch what they order and get something the same size. Then go home or somewhere else and eat 2x as much. Sounds like a shame thing and a compulsion.

  20. Re:The reason why Battlefield Earth Won the Razzie on Battlefield Earth Screenwriter Accepts Razzie · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I dunno man. What's up with the fighter jets that sat in a cave like 1,000 years and started up just fine? The ancient walkie-talkie's with working batteries? The stupid aliens accepting pallets of gold bars with official seals stamped on them??

    That's about all I can remember from the movie, it HURT MY BWAIN.

    So I ask you... was that nonsense from the book or added because of low budgets? It seemed pretty integral to the plot to find the planes so... the book couldn't have made much sense could it? GIGO.

  21. Re:About relocating supercomputing power to Austra on Slimming Down a Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Dude you could at least CITE it. Hello!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect

  22. Re:I Smell Another Apple Ad on 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View · · Score: 1

    But not because he peed, that of course being a TINKLE... he still had to change his pants however so he could be TINGLE the green pants boy who wished he was a fairy.

  23. Re:It's a lose lose on Dell To Leave China For India · · Score: 1

    Caste system is a social problem

    Actually caste is a religious problem not a social problem. After all, the lowest castes were made from the foot, and the highest from the arms and head. I respect hinduism but not the habit of denying it's part of the religion.

  24. I RTFM'ed aaaaandd.... on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    He doesn't go as far as say he's given up or that he's been wrong all along. All he said is that they shot themselves in the foot and LIMITED the spread of .Net by threatening people with patent litigation.

    It really looks like he's saying "It could have been so much more" rather than "I have today truly awoken!"

    So until we have a more solid quote from him that supports the idea of retracting on previous statements... the bubbly should be put back on the rack.

  25. Re:Non story on Bill Gates May Build Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    That and "640KW ought to be enough for anybody."